When we worked here together, we fought, scratched and clawed to make people’s lives a tiny bit better. That’s what public service is all about, small incremental change every day. Teddy Roosevelt once said “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is a chance to work hard at work worth doing.” and I would add that what makes work worth doing, is getting to do it with people that you love.
In Norse mythology, the Vanir are a group of gods separate from the Æsir. They are associated with fertility, wisdom, nature, gold, magic and the ability to see the future. It seems that they originated from the Baltic and the southern shores of the Northern Sea, where they were worshipped by seafarers, and came to Norway as contestants to the old gods. In Völuspá, this is symbolized by the Vanir-Æsir-war that began when Gollveig, a goddess of the Vanir, was burned and cut by spears at the command of Óðinn. The war ended with a treaty, and Njörðr, a Vanir, went to live among the Æsir with his children, Freyr and Freyja - just as the cult of the Vanir was eventually welcomed into Norse worship as equals to the Æsir.
Oh sorry. I made another, more accurate graphic. In case anyone was still confused.
Are you gonna draw another Venn diagram showing the overlap of abusers in BDSM?
made a better one
But abusive BDSM isn’t legit BDSM…?
yall gotta understand that abuse is a huge problem in the bdsm community it happens, and the abusers use the defense of ‘it was bdsm’ and it’s unacceptable theres an overlap there that needs to be acknowledged within the community before we can move on and work on helping victims
Arguments like the one above are examples of the No True Scotsman fallacy—the idea that a member of a certain group or movement who does something reprehensible obviously wasn’t a real member of that group or movement.
It’s a common argument on tumblr—“racist/transphobic/ableist/etc feminists aren’t real feminists,” “Bigoted Christians aren’t real Christians,” etc, as well as in this context.
It’s an understandable move to want to dissociate the ideals of a group from those who do the opposite of what the group is supposed to stand for, but in the end, this argument deflects the responsibility of acknowledging and dealing with this kind of problem.
Recognizing that there can be bigoted, judgmental Christians, narrow-minded exclusionary feminists, abusive practitioners of BDSM—even if these people don’t live up to what those groups are supposed to represent—is pretty crucial in dealing with these kinds of situations.
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